Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:15. Do we need journeying mercies? Here are choice ones — God’s presence and preservation. In all places we…
Read MoreBut I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, Matthew 5:44.
Read MoreThe second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31.
Read MoreBe careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 12:28. Though salvation is not by the works of the law, yet the…
Read MoreElisha and the Widow’s oil (1-7) V. 1:…wife of one of the sons of the prophets… Jewish historian Josephus states that this widow is the wife of ProphetObadiah mentioned in 1 King 18. …creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves… ln the ANE (Ancient Near East), this widow was considered…
Read MoreBehold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard,on the beard of Aaron,running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon,which falls on the mountains of Zion!For there the Lord has commanded…
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